Art/Design
Objectified is the latest documentary film by Gary Hustwit (The director of 'Helvetica'). The movie explores the objectification of design centric items such as Furniture and cool gadgets. Notable designers I knew of on the trailer was Braun's Deiter Rams and Apple's Jonathan Ives.
While you wait for Objectified to come out, I would recommend watch 'Helvetica' which goes around asking graphic designers and typefacers about the influence of the font Helevetica has to culture, trust me you don't have to have a degree in design to enjoy this film, its very interesting and funny at times, come on they talking about a font.
The 24 yr old Miami native has been collecting alot of press for her colorful paper sculptures. I am pretty sure many of you seen her work spread acorss the pages of blogs, but now you get to meet the young beautiful artist and see what the art critics think about the future of her work. via the Pursuit Aesthetic
After the JUMP I put a few images of her work, but you should head over the her site @ JenStark.com
Start the morning off with a Techno claded video of Graffiti Artist, Andre, doing his thang.
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BMW has collaborated with South African Artist, Robin Rhode, to create "Expression of Joy." I believe the images and video speak for themselves, but I have added some links below for some long ass articles about the intent and technique actually I couldn't go pass the 1st paragraph so I am guessing that's what it was about.
After the Jump All the Cool IMAGES
Thanks JT for sending this link to the Evolo Arch competition. See more
His paintings took the art world by storm in the 1980s and then Julian Schnabel reinvented himself as a film director to more kudos. Morley Safer profiles this titan of art and film.
I recently watched all the movies he directed so this was a pleasure to watch.
As somebody who frequents both inhabitat.com and treehugger.com I see a lot of "green" products showcased. What I wonder though is since when does "green" inherently mean "good"? Have the terms become interchachable? It seems to me that a lot of people judge the value of an object on its "greeness" not on its quality of design or funcionality. I see this all the time with architecture where buildings are showcased as something great because of their "sustainability" despite horrible designs. It's not just with architecture though. Look at the lamp pictured above which Inhabitat characerizes as "brilliant" since it turns a wine box into a lamp. I fail to see the brilliance in it. It is not a particularly attractive lamp and while it may be recycling materials it requres two boxes instead of the standard one thus doubling the amount of packaging required. The wine bottle packaging includes a cfl lightbulb as well which is good for people who want this lamp but will likely be thrown away by many increasing the odds that the bulbs will be broken releasing the toxic mercury within. So lets see extra packaging, ugly lamp(ok thats arguable), and possible mercury emissions all come together with the wine's great new price hike. I guess the brilliance is in the green afterall
“A clever ad for HSBC by Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai ad agency in India. The bank wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming, so the clever ad guys glued an aerial photo of a city’s skyscrapers to the base of a swimming pool …”
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